Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked. Kofi Annan Read Quote
My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work. Kofi Annan Read Quote
One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on… unless you are a king. Kofi Annan Read Quote
I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it. Kofi Annan Read Quote
We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter. Kofi Annan Read Quote
When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate. Kofi Annan Read Quote
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues – they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies. Kofi Annan Read Quote
